Book That Makes Mauritian Voters Smart As Hell Published

It's available in several locations worldwide since yesterday. The Mauritian diaspora will be able to understand GE2024 and politics in their motherland and elsewhere like never before.

Poll Recommends Women Run as Independent

Only 41% of the 31 voters thought women should ask for a quota of female candidates. Organisations like Women in Networking (WIN) may then have partly missed an opportunity to make the best of the 100 or so candidates they had prepared for the May 5 elections. I say partly because people like Aline Wong who have been involved with WIN and its political arm is standing as candidate.

Of course it matters little whether there are 100% men or 0% men in parliament. What our country is crying for is basic problem-solving ability.

Sithanen and 5 Colleagues From Cabinet Sidelined

So we learned this afternoon when Ramgoolam announced the names of his 59 fellow candidates. The five ministers not on l'Alliance de L'avenir's list are Asraf Dulull, Indranee Seebun, Dharam Gokhool, Mahen Gowresoo and Sylvio Tang.

There are 13 women candidates (21.6%) on that list with riding no.4 having only female candidates. Berenger's alliance have picked 8 women (13.3%) or 5 less.